thats what happens when half of the playerbase doesnt understand nor enjoy tanks/planes they are playing and mindlessly grinds towards top tier hopeing and copeing that there is magical place there where they will have their abrams/su-27 and be happy
then turns out that at the end there is nothing so they grind another tree for the same purpose
pretty sad
I have to confess, clans are not really a thing in war thunder. Back in my world of tanks days, joining a clan meant joining a group of active people to game with. Doing clan battles. Participating in world wars. Every squadron i join in war thunder more or less has the same goal in mind. Grinding squadron vehicles. Occasionally, someone from my squadron wants to group up. But honestly? I might as well play solo.
It also doesnt help that gaijin absolutely does nothing squadron related. I never saw any menu or way to engage in some kind of global clan wars. No notification about clan wars or something. I mean, even the world war mode in warthunder close to never works. The chat system inside war thunder is also appaling. There is no proper global chat, other than a few rooms, that only have the same 20 odd people debating which vehicle is the worst. Basically, the best chat is the one you have inside matches. Which is sad.
So really, i think its gaijin’s fault for not investing enough development into quadrons and the ingame chat.
No, they actually had Korean War Era & Vietnam Era jets in game when I started playing 10 years ago. It has never been strictly WW II based, that was just the “starting point”, with newer, more modern vehicles added over time. Granted the past 2 - 3 years has been almost exclusively the more modern stuff. But with many players wanting/demanding such things, and as far as we know it had always been part of the plan, kind of to be expected. One of the alures of WT has always wondering/anticipating what comes next. Had Gaijin laid out every vehicle and move they had planned to implement well ahead of time, all that would have been gone. The cool part is we can play what we want, it’s all in there with more to come(I secretly wish and wait for WW I bi-planes and tri-planes!!) It’s the journey, not the destination . . .
Squadrons are still baffling to me, create this whole part of the game with squadron vehicles where you force everyone into squadrons and then just do nothing with it ever again.
Guess they just wanted to milk the squadron money and have zero ideas or vision as with every other aspect of the game.
I just stopped caring in general. I don’t feel the vibe? I will leave the battle. I want to watch tv show while playing? I will only use SPAA. My stats tanked, but my mental health is much better.
I honestly started preferring to lose, because I often use spots that rely on enemy coming to me, so that’s easier when I’m on losing side.